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Title: A Photocatalytic Air Cleaning System Breaking Down Volatile Organic Compounds to Improve Health and Productivity of Occupants
Author: Bapat, Ketki Prashant
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture
Description: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are one of the pollutants that impact indoor air quality, leading to many adverse health effects such as Asthma, and other breathing issues. Most of the VOCs are harmful and carcinogenic, usually emitted by indoor...

Title: Bidirectional Scripting and Geometric Manipulation
Author: Rodgers, James
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Architecture, Design
Description: Working within the bounds of two-dimensional drawing programs and algorithmic design software, this project seeks to improve the accessibility to hidden information that is often obscured in conventional CAD software. Building off of visual progra...

Title: Communities of Learning: Towards a Collaborative Model of Teaching and Learning in Architectural Education
Author: Jernigan, Julie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Architecture
Description: At the forefront of the architectural world today is the discussion on the disconnect that exists between architectural education and professional practice. There have been recent calls to make architectural education more closely mirror architect...

Title: Digitizing Vernacular Nigerian Bamboo Screens: A Genetic Optimization Framework Analyzing Environmental Performance And Economic Affordability
Author: Patterson, Ijechukwuamaka
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Artificial intelligence, Information technology
Description: The pressures of rapid urbanization and climate change are severely affecting cities such as Lagos, Nigeria. Failures of modern construction practices to accommodate various impacts of local climate conditions as well as traditional construction t...

Title: Event-Driven Geographies
Author: Whitmire, Monica
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Architecture
Description: Event-driven geographies, landscapes activated by programmed activity, are unique occupations of site that mitigate and utilize the host terrain in advantageous ways. Typically ephemeral in nature, the ‘events’ are flexible and adapt to the geogra...

Title: Exploring an Intelligent Responsive Architecture through Gesture-based Interaction
Author: An, Yijing
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture, Building
Description: Architects are increasingly adopting gesture-based interaction to create responsive, engaging and inspiring spaces. However, there is no established theories providing guidelines to link gestures and spatial movement. This thesis critiques the pre...

Title: Generative Machine Learning Models for Airflow Prediction of Architectural Spaces
Author: Claudio Rodriguez, Fernando
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Architecture
Description: Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) airflow simulations are not used as often in architectural settings primarily due to time constraints. The proper use of CFD airflow simulations involves a complex setup and run-time process that requires a large amou...

Title: Hybrid elevations using GAN networks
Author: Mohammad, Ali
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Architecture, Design
Description: This project attempts to develop and test a method for generating one-sided hybrid exterior building elevations using two designer’s base criteria and design ruleset as an input. Architects are using computational design to expedite the iteration ...

Title: In Celebration of Being Human
Author: Radnia, Noushin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture, Design
Description: Over time, the relationship between human and technology has been evolving. As a result of this evolution, as Donna Haraway explains in her basic thesis, it is no longer possible to tell where we end and machines begin. On the other hand, this enh...

Title: LIBRARY OF THINGS (LoT) - AN URBAN SYSTEM MODEL FOR RECONCEPTUALIZING THE ROLE AND SPATIALIZATION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Author: Nelson, Alexandra
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Information technology, Architecture
Description: As the public library system struggles to find support in the age Google and Amazon, their impact through crucial resources and personalized support from library staff prove their undeniable value in cities -- especially for those without internet...

Title: Mirror on the Wall: Using the Mirror as a Design Principle to Engage Users in Large Public Displays
Author: Lee, Lina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: With the advent of affordable large display screens and with the emergence of more sophisticated sensing technologies, Mid-air Interactive Information Display is becoming more common in physical public spaces. In the field of human computer intera...

Title: Parametric BIM Automation
Author: Lakshmanan, Jashwanth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture
Description: Like Vitruvius who was loosely termed as the first architect, always believed that every good design had to be based off of geometric patterns and set constraints. And Bill Mitchell’s - Logic Of Architecture has some good views on computational de...

Title: Pinned Incremental Metal Forming
Author: Stockhoff, Paul
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Building
Description: Advanced design software allows designers to rapidly create huge numbers of design variations. However, these variations do not incorporate material and manufacturing limits, which are typically considered much later during the process of design d...

Title: Sequence Prediction Applied to BIM Log Data, An Approach to Develop a Command Recommender System for BIM Software Application
Author: Radnia, Ashkan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Architecture
Description: Building Information Modeling has become an industry standard for designing, documenting, and collaborating within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Architects spend most of their time developing projects from the feasibili...

Title: TANGIBLE INTERACTION FOR PARAMETRIC DESIGN
Author: Kim, Jin Goog
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture
Description: Most research on tangible user interfaces for architectural design is undertaken from a technology perspective. While many studies focus on the development of new interactive systems employing tangible user interfaces for designers, there is a lac...

Title: TRACING THE ORIGINS AND USAGE OF AFFORDANCES IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: EPISTEMOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DESIGN
Author: Hess, Adam
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Design, Psychology, Experimental
Description: This thesis questions the use of the theory of affordance, a psychological theory of perception, as the basis for a symbolic design methodology in human-computer interaction. By comparing the psychological writings on affordance of James J. Gibson...

Title: The Learning Facade
Author: MacKnight, Paul
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture
Description: Despite the rising popularity and utilization of intelligent systems, much of thebuilt environment, especially architecture, remains prescriptive or responsive in nature.Kinetic facades, especially, still rely on the analysis of historic or approx...

Title: Toward optimistic version control in architecture: diffing, patching, and three-way merging for openNURBS 3D models
Author: Rawlings, Nicholas
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Information technology
Description: The ability of architects to collaborate and work in parallel on digital assets is limited by pessimistic strategies for managing shared files. The software engineering community has worked around this problem by adopting optimistic version contro...

Title: Under One Umbrella: Historic Preservation in Havana, Cuba as the Link between Social Services and Economics
Author: Dallmeyer, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Cultural property--Protection
Description: Traditionally, historic preservation focuses on the past, but a major challenge of historic preservation is working with buildings that are still in use. If a building continues to be used, it will continue to evolve. Thus, current daily life and ...

Title: VISUAL ANALYTICS FOR LARGE SCALE ETHNOGRAPHY: EXPLORING COMPUTATIONAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE OCCUPATION AND UTILIZATION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Author: Danilowicz, Steven
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Architecture
Description: Observational data within Post Occupancy Evaluations (POE) has had the problem of being deemed as ‘unreliable’ due to the fact that it is not based on quantifiable, empirical evidence. Even though ethnographic observation is quite effective and ha...